This week I think the most intriguing thing that happened this week was the debate on whether Nat Turner could be viewed as a hero or not and in what context do we see Nat Turner as a hero or not. I think there was a lot of good discussion about it in the groups and I think that we generally came to the consensus that the story of Nat Turner, showed both heroic and unheroic attributes. While some of us agreed that being heroic meant that you were supposed to stand up for your beliefs and your values, the way that Nat incorporated his vision of fighting back was to murder many people. In the end we decided that it was more of a gray area between naming Nat Turner a true hero due to the violence to which he inflicted on people, including others that who were not directly involved in Nat’s slavery situation, such as the children. It seemed that to Nat, the ends justified the means, but even though he did not fully realize his revolt, the institution of slavery did end later though there were a lot of backlash against slaves after the Nat Turner rebellion. However, it is more of a question of how we perceive the issue of slavery and how we feel that it should have been eradicated. We know from history that eventually slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation but it was only because of the Northerners victory from the Civil War which was the bloodiest war fought on American soil. Therefore we can see how the issue of slavery and revolt against it would be seen as a gray area in the sense of how you fight back against it. The story of Nat Turner is something that is even shaded today as some textbooks, specifically in Virginia seem to pass over or ignore the story of the rebellion. However, with the re-imagining of this history in a graphic novel, the old issues controversies still arise as to whether Nat Turner was a hero or not.